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Roland Perry · March 12th 10, 05:07 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 13:58:23 on Fri, 12 Mar
2010, d remarked:

International pax wanting to travel onward have been estimated at just
two trains-full a day, apparently.

But does that take into account potential through running from the midlands
when people there find its a lot easier to get to france etc?

You'd have to ask the people who did the estimates. Perhaps they've been
living on Mars and don't know about the effect whereby cheap airlines
fares have drummed up demand from nowhere.

Would a large junction matter? Its not like theres trains leaving every
minute clapham junction style.

There would be, once you've combined the HS1 and HS2 traffic.

But if HS2 doesn't intersect with HS1 then thats the point of it? All it'll
do is knock 30 mins of the trip to birmingham. It won't make getting too or
from france any easier for travellers. I don't get it.

Because most of the people travelling to France are coming from
somewhere other than an HS2 train.
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Roland Perry